...but rather didn’t accept Christ as their savior. Those in Limbo aren’t harmed or living in suffering. They live in a deficient form of heaven. The place is green and peaceful, but the people there are full of sorrow and sadness. Because they lacked the initiative to accept God, they are punished by not being put in heaven and instead rest in a place that’s almost like it, minus state of mind of living in eternity with an overwhelming feeling of joy. They did not turn away from God, but at the same time did not let Him in their lives. The people here live in constant hope that God will again descend from Heaven and save their souls like he has before, but their desire is the only thing they live off of. Those that have sought after lust or have let it control their lives are stuck in the second level of hell. They are swayed restlessly by the strong winds of a storm. They are the first ones to be punished in hell. “the sins or crimes are mostly those of passion or weakness; in the second circle, for example, they encountered the adulterers Paolo and Francesca, who had been overcome by passion. Virgil tells Dante that the violent criminals will be found just below them, and still lower the traitor (pg 788, Chevigny) Their willingness to let the power of lust directing them one way or another is symbolized by the way they are...
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...Ricardo Moss Eng. 113-A Ms. Jennings Tupac Shakur, the Rose That Was “The Rose That Grew from Concrete,” a poem by the late Tupac Shakur, is a poem that parallels Tupac’s life from early childhood until his death and beyond. The concrete representing the struggles and hardships that were a part of Tupac’s earlier days. The rose represents Tupac and his determination to make something of himself against all odds. Tupac Shakur, born Lesane Parrish Crooks on June 16, 1971, spent the majority of his youth in New York City where he was born. In Tupac’s poem the concrete symbolizes his early childhood and the struggles that were a part of growing up. Tupac’s father was absent for most of his life, according to the (urbandictionary.com). Tupac did not meet his biological father, Billy (William) Garland, until after he was shot five times on November 30, 1994, in New York City. Tupac would eventually incorporate the “thug life” persona in his life which would lead Tupac on a downward spiral of misfortunes. Mikal Gilmore, in Rolling Stones article characterizes Tupac as “perhaps the most despised man in America.” Gilmore goes on to describe the late rapper’s music as being merciless and condemned by some of Americas most powerful people (Glimore102-104). Tupac would eventually end up in jail for sexual assault which would not be his last brush with the law. Between Tupac’s vision of what the concrete symbolizes and what was instilled in him from a mother and step father that...
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...Life After Death, What Happens After We Die? Contents Introduction 3 Ideas on Life After Death in Different Religions 4 Perception of Life After Death in Literature: Dante's “Inferno” 6 Life After Death in Art: Rodin's “The Gates of Hell” 8 Conclusion 10 References 11 Introduction The question associated with life after death is associated with people of all races, genders, ages and world religions. It is understandable that people cannot live forever, and death is an inevitable event. But still people are interested what will happen to them after death, and what it means to die. There are great numbers of assumptions on this issue, and people's opinions differ, but still it is difficult to reveal the truth, as nobody knows this for sure. This paper will focus on different assumptions and possible events taking place after people's death. Of course every person thinks about afterlife concept in the current period of time, as it would be really strange not to consider this issue at least once. People should understand and be aware of possible events happened to them after life in order to value the current state of affairs and life in the present period of time. It is necessary to make the right choice and build proper relationships with people surrounding you, as every day is unique, and it would be impossible to return it again. D'Souza (2009) stated that the Bible teaches people “that...
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...Ex-convicts do not live an easy lifestyle in prison, however, when they reenter society, they have even bigger struggles to face. In the outside world ex-convicts do not face the intimidation of other convicts, but rather disrespectful and pessimistic attitudes from employers. Ex-convicts are immediately judged and labeled based off of their rap sheet. What these employers seem to forget is that, these ex-convicts are people trying to make a living as well. Jeremy Travis, President of Criminal Justice at John Jay College, and Christy A. Visher, Director of The Center for Drug and Alcohol Studies (CDAS) at the University of Delaware, performed a study on prisoners and their needs to adapt back into society with more ease. In their article, Travis and Diaz 2 Visher touched upon the previously mentioned idea, “Individuals returning home from prison have been shaped by their offending and substance abuse histories, their work skills and job histories, their mental and physical health, their prison experiences, and their attitudes, beliefs, and personality traits.” (Travis, Visher pg 91) Travis and Visher are not specifically referring to employers, but that is where most discrimination on ex-convicts occurs simply from the section on the work application that asks if one has ever had any trouble with the law. Any person who has to check that box must feel discouraged in some way. One may argue that having an ex-convict in their work place will cause uneasy tensions...
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...privilege to live after they ruined a family, broke their hearts, and took a loved one away from them forever? After his victim is six feet in the ground, to never be found, or if they lived, to be scarred for the rest of their lives and to never be able to trust anyone the same ever again because of what they've been through? Well in my opinion they shouldn't. They should be given the death penalty because they took an innocent life on purpose just to satisfy his needs so his life should be taken as well. He should not only get sent to prison but get the death penalty as well. i think there are two different types of murderers. There's the murderer that lives for killing and likes chopping the body parts of his victim or even likes eating them. They plan their murder to the very last detail, maybe they know their victim or maybe they don't, but they know exactly how much time they are going to spend with them and how they are going to kill them; these are called premeditated murders. Then there are the types that act in the moment of anger or of fear and dont realize what they are doing until they have already done it. I dont think that this type of murderer deserves the death penalty but they do deserve some time in prison to pay for what he or she did if it wasnt in self-defense. Many people think that if a murderer is sent to prison for life that he is going to stop killing, but there is no guarentee that a murderer is going to stop killing once he is in prison. If he or she...
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...A Positive Perspective on Prison Education Prison Education Many people would agree that continuing an education is key to living in society. Therefore, education is very vital for every individual to maintain, regardless of how or where they obtain it. Having an education can provide people with some many opportunities to improve their lives. Even though people believe that education is important, many people disagree with education being taught in prison. Many of the inmates are high school dropouts or have an eighth grade education or less; therefore, they need to receive an education. For that reason, educating prisoners provides an opportunity for them to learn how to become better readers and expand their knowledge. Usually inmate’s reasons for dropping out of school included a greater rate of grade retention, school transfers, misbehavior, poor attendance, and poor grades. Inmates also experienced less time in extracurricular activities and very little time with a school counselor during their time in school” (Vacca 301). For many people to succeed they have to be motivated, it’s always hard to stay focused when so many obstacles are put in front of anyone. Education can reinforce goals people have, their culture beliefs, and how important education really is. However, many people lose that focus when they feel that they are not...
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...Prisoner Reentry Imagine being in prison serving a five year sentence for your first offense of being a manufacture and distributing drugs. You probably couldn’t picture that in your mind because it is something you never want to happen and think that never would happen. That is what ran through my mind growing up, that I would never experience life in prison. But years ago, after graduating from high school going into college I surrounded myself around the wrong type of people. I found myself being in college that it was hard to get a job and concentrate on school, and one day I was introduced to the possibility of making money. The way I was going to make money was by distributing drugs, and my first few thoughts were; I shouldn’t do this because of the consequences of being caught, or I should take this opportunity to make some good money while in school. At the end of the day I ended up taking the opportunity and after continuing to do it for a year a two months, I was caught distributing and then sentenced to five years of prison. That was the time of my life where I was scared because I did not know what to do or what to expect prison was going to be like for me. My time being in prison everyday consisted of waking up at 7:30am everyday as officers did a roll call, eat breakfast at 8am then go do the job I was assigned to do that day if there was any, from there I would go to lunch and then back to work if there was more work to be done or I would go back to my cell to...
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...To begin with, life in prison as exhibited by Zoot Suit Riots by Luis Valdez and What you can do after shutdown by Peter Malae are similar because they both talk about prison in their stories. In Zoot Suit Riots, it states “Henry Reyna is falsely accused and convicted of the murder and is imprisoned until an appeal can demonstrate that he was not inv There are many similarities as well as differences in Zoot Suit Riots by Luis Valdez and Peter Malae’s stories. The authors address similar topics such as discrimination, prison life, and perseverance in an oppressive system. Zoot Suit Riots by Luis Valdez and Peter Malae’s stories both include different topics such as the effects of the length of time in prison which is displayed in one of...
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...PRISON CONDITIONS KIMBERLY C. STAHL 303: CRJ CORRECTIONS CURTIS TURNEY APRIL 12, 2013 When someone has committed a federal offense they are usually sent to prison, they must pay for the crimes they have committed. Prisons are meant to protect society from those who commit crimes and to harm innocent people. For most of the prisoners it’s a purpose to rehabilitate them and to help them with the skills they need to become a member of society. Not only are prison’s meant to rehabilitate but they are also there to punish those who have committed a crime. Not all prisoners can be rehabilitated; criminals are put into prisons not only to keep society safe but to also help those who can be rehabilitated. In this research paper I will show what the prisons do to help inmates to rehabilitate and become a member of society, I will also analyze the condition of the U.S. prisons, and to show which programs will help to reduce recidivism. The purpose of prisons is to punish someone who has committed a federal offense, upon being arrested a person who is being accused of a crime will be arraigned in front of a judge, after the judge looks at all the evidence, he/she has to decide what the penalty will be for the person being accused, the judge must look at all the evidence and the record (if they have one) of the person who is being accused, after weighing all the evidence and if they are a repeat offender the judge then hands down their sentencing, after doing...
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...The FRONTLINE film “The New Asylums” produced and directed by Miri Navasky & Karen O'Connor is a documentary on the state of mental illness into today’s prisons. The documentary shows life behind bars in a supermax prison in Ohio. The film explores the pros and cons of the mental institutions that have been created out of necessity in America’s prison systems. The goal of the documentary was to answer the question of why prisons are the new mental health providers because there are 500,000 people with mental illness in prisons, as compared to only one-fifth that number being helped in Psychiatric hospitals. According to the film, most of the prisoners end up in prison from being unable to cope with the outside world and get arrested for offenses such as violent behavior, rape and robbery to name a few....
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...Analysis of “Why Prisons Don’t Work” An article written by Wibert Rideau titled “Why Prisons Don’t Work”, published in Time Magazine on March 21, 1994, was written by a man who was sentenced to die in prison. He was accused of murdering a white person in Lousiana in 1962, long before the civil rights movement really took hold. He was in prison for 44 years by the time he walked a free man. The same system of justice used in 1964 is still the same system we use today, and the only difference is that there are far many more people in prison today than ever. We should all wonder how many Wibert Rideaus are sitting in cells, in prisons, throughout America today. Let his article be a wake up call that many people are wrongfully convicted every day in the United States. The ethos of Mr. Rideau is of a very high caliber for more than one reason. The first reason is that he was in prison 44 years and strives to educate the public on why prisons don’t work. He could be home, angry and licking his wounds and yet he tells his story in an effort to use his experience for positive change. The second reason for ethos is that he is a persuasive writer whose intelligence and use of language is excellent. Third, he is committed to using the remainder of his life to do what can be done to change prison systems and punishment in America by giving us an inside view. Fourth, he has come such a long way in building a memorable career for himself after being a convicted felon and...
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...29, 2011 Abstract Repeat offenders in the prison system are becoming a revolving door. This paper will examine and give your percentages and statistics of how many become repeat offenders due to the fact of the amenities inside most prisons. Gathering information from different prisons and their living conditions have brought a great deal of questions to why are they offered so many for free. Given information on resources shortages in different welfare-related areas, such as education, employment, housing, social relations and health, affect the risk for re offending. Data on their living conditions were collected by personal interviews, articles and statistics from Department of Criminal Justice. Although, the data was inconclusive in many of these areas, many implications for instruction are presented. Much of the data linked to their history of becoming repeat offenders. Findings of data that reflected their efforts to stay out of prison was affected by their of living conditions and some of the luxury amenities are primarily felt by those who at the time of interview had not previously served time in prison are making crime a career. Also, researching and comparing when jail standards were not as important as they are now. Reflecting that the conditions that have improved for them did quit enlighten the nation’s legal system. Proving that the overcrowding was due to repeat offenders who choose come back believing life was better inside rather than the real world. Overall...
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...understand it. My interest 2 years ago i visited the prison Alcatraz siuated on an island close to sanfransico. those feelings and impresions that i had when i left the island, will follow me for the rest of my life. So i wanted to take this journey back in time, and find out how the way of punishment has changed through out times. I desided to start my examination at the very beginning Crime has always existed, and it has always been a part of any society. From the very beginning of mankind, when god created the world the first two crimes were commided. First of all adam and eve was expelt from the garden of eden, because they ate the forbidden fruit. Afterwards their son Cain killed his brother Abel, simply because of envy. These acts witch is written in the bible shows that punishment has existed since the very beginning of mankind. Moving a little forward in time punishment became even more sevier. In ancient times no mercy were shown toward crimminals. The kings and the government were trying to suppress the population and Death penelty was frequently used. Minor crimes were punished with imprisonment, sometimes for life. The main ideas of death penalty and long imprisonment were to protect the interests of the king and the upper class and deteriorate people. 200 hundred years ago this was daily life even in Denmark. In Denmark the last death penalty was executed in 1892, the death penalty was reintroduced after second world war, but that’s another story. BY and...
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...(Morgan Freeman) recounts how he planned and carried out his wife’s murder and accidentally killing a neighbor and child as well and earned him a life sentence at Shawshank Prison. Red also remembers the arrival of an inmate named Andy Dufresne, whose tenure at Shawshank affected the lives of everyone at the prison. Andy was sent to Shawshank for life for the cold-blooded murder of his wife and her lover, a pro tennis player. Despite the damning evidence placing him at the scene of the crime on the night of the murders, Andy has always maintained his innocence, which Red eventually comes to believe in as well. Andy has some initial difficulty adjusting to prison life, especially because many of the other prisoners think he’s a snob. A gang of men known as the Sisters frequently attack and rape him in the laundry room while the guards look the other way. Andy fights the Sisters, even though it always lands him in the infirmary and sometimes solitary confinement. Despite these hardships, Andy never complains or loses his confidence. Soon after arriving at Shawshank, Andy approaches Red and asks him to get a rock hammer because he’s interested in rock collecting and carving. After a while, he also pays Red to smuggle in a large poster of pinup Rita Hayworth. A new inmate arrives at Shawshank and tells Andy that he served time in another prison with a man who privately admitted to killing a pro tennis player and his mistress. When Andy asks Norton, the warden, to request a retrial, Norton...
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...Death Penalty or Life in Prison Sierra Brattain Southwestern Michigan College Death Penalty or Life in Prison Death Penalty I began my research by looking into the death penalty or also known as capital punishment. The death penalty is the action of executing a person who has committed an illegal act equivalent to death. Crimes punishable by death vary depending on the state; some include murder, sexual assault, treason, and other serious capital crimes (“Crimes Punishable”, 2011). There are many different outlooks on the death penalty; some in favor of the death penalty believe it is the ultimate balance between good and evil and they often use the phrase, “an eye, for an eye.” By using death as punishment they can assure society that the offender cannot commit another crime. Also that it can deter people from committing violent crimes, with the reasoning of, if someone believes they will lose their life over an action they will usually choose not to perform the act. On contrast, those who oppose believe the death penalty is “a waste of life.” Many keep faith that everyone who may have committed a crime punishable by death can be rehabilitated, and could serve a purpose in society. Furthermore the death penalty takes the value away from life in society’s eyes, and causes it to seem unimportant. It is also strongly argued that the death penalty is unjustified because it can be dispensed upon the innocent. “Since 1900, 350 people have been wrongly convicted of homicide...
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